10/27/98
Massachusetts Rankings
by John Molvar
Teams - Individuals
St. John's Shrewsbury still No. 1; Pat Boehm makes big
move to 3rd behind Frank Sanchez and Andy Powell
From: John Molvar [[email protected]]
Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 1998 4:06 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Mass HS XC Rankings
Three of the top 4 teams faced off this weekend yet nothing was definitively decided.
St John’s (S) defeated Wachusett and Doherty. But as
one observer stated, “is this the Wachusett team we will see in Gardner”? Good
Question. Did Leapan and the Triac brothers not run due to
injury or are they holding some runners out of races? We may not know until the � the way
through the championship race at Gardner.
Even at full strength St John’s (S) may be hard to stop. If XC is dying at the
hands of the soccer moms, it doesn’t apply to St Johns (S) which reportedly has over
30 boys on the team.
1 St Johns-Shrewsbury
2 Wachusett
3 Westford Acadamey
4 Doherty
5 Mohawk
6 Oliver Ames
7 Gloucester
8 North Middlesex
9 Chelmsford
10 Whitman-Hansen
11 Bromfield
12 Amherst
13 Brookline
14 Cambridge
15 Methuen
16 Lincoln-Sudbury
17 BC High
18 Taconic
19 Narragansett
20 Lowell
21 Hamilton-Wenham
22 Plymouth
23 Lexington
24 St Johns Prep
25 Norwell
26 Hoosac
27 Pittsfield
28 Central Catholic
29 Stoneham
30 Minnechaoug
31 Concord
32 Brocton
33 Foxboro
34 Seekonk
35 Haverhill
36 Wellesley
37 Milton
38 Barnstable
At the Wachusett meet Pat Boehm showed that he is not only one of the best runners in
the state, he is now a major threat to qualify in the top 8 at the Northeast Footlocker
Region. He defeated Tim Curran who has the 4th fastest HS time ever at Franklin Park,
teammate Dave Raymond who ran 9.23 last year and Chris Carvelli who ran 4.21 last year.
Even More significant, he broke Scott Estabrook’s course record. Estabrook ran a 9.14
2 mile. Curran tied the old record. In the past 2 years Mass has had 2 runners under 9.00
in the 2 mile (Riley and Powell) another under 9.10 (Sanchez), one who would have been
under 9.10 if he ran one (Mohamed) and now Sanchez appears primed to go under 9 and you
would have to think both Boehm and Curran could threaten 9.10 this year. Not bad for a
state that was far weaker in the
early 90s.
1 Frank Sanchez, Lynn Tech (9.07)
2 Andy Powell, Oliver Ames (8.59, 4.05)
3 Pat Boehm, Wachusett (4.26, 9.54)
4 Tim Curran, St John’s (Shrewsbury) (9.39)
5 Benji Wessenyeleh, O’Bryant (9.26, 4.28)
6 Chris Carvelli, N. Middlesex (4.22, 9.46)
7 *Geoff Atkinson, Norwell (never ran track!)
8 **Said Ahmedi, Boston English (1.55)
9 *Tristan Colangelo (4.17)
10 Tyler Bloom, Westford Academy (9.45)
11 Rich Lincoln, Lincoln Sudbury (4.31, 9.56)
12 Tom McArdle Brookline (9.40)
13 Dave Raymond, Wachusett (9.23)
14 Shawn Wallace, Wakefield (9.53)
15 Adam Reich, BBN
16 Steve Martella, St John’s (Shewsbury)
17 *Josh Barshard, Somerville (9.46)
18 **Josh Palazola, Gloucester (2.01)
19 Eric Nazar, Amherst (9.52)
20 Sean Triacs, Wachesett
21 Nate Jenkins, Narragansett
22 *Neil Graves, Mohawk
23 Mark Miller, Mohawk
24 Byron Gartrell, BCH
25 Kevin Alliette, Methuen
26 Evan Pilachowski, Mt Greylock (4.26,9.38)
27 Jim Kastrenis, Foxboro
28 Jim Emord, Bridgewater-Raynham
29 Renny Waldron, Cambridge
30 Brian Lankiewicz, Whitman-Hanson
31 Sean McCarthy, Chelmsford
32 Paul Phelps, Taconic (4.32, 10.07)
33 Chris Antunes, Westford Academy (1.56)
34 Igor Rory, Lynnfield (4.21)
35 Nephi Tyler, Farr (9.46)
36 Chris Testa, Dover-Sherborn
37 Chris Johnson, Oliver Ames (4.24)
38 Loe Leapan, Wachusett
39 Chris Starr, Bromfield
40 ? Murphy, South ?
41 Matt McDonald, Blackstone-Millville
42 Jarrod Shoemaker, Lincoln Sudbury
43 Matt Davis, Shrewsbury
44 Eric Nygard, Narragansett
45 Marc Leblanc, Natick
46 Paul Kingston, BCH
47 Scott Strandberg, Reading
48 Peter Starr, Bromfield
49 Adam Monroe, North Middlesex
50 Pete Holt, Bromfield
51 Dave Fortin, Westford Acadamy
52 Jordan Jones, Medford
53 *Shawn Milne, Gloucester
54 Nat Brown, Wellesley
55 Dave Hartman, Cambridge
56 Brian Griffin, Central Catholic
57 Andy Gallivan, Doherty
58 Jason Triacs, Wachusett
59 Pat English, BCH
60 Jeff Lemay, Blackstone-Millville
Please send comments and let me know of any errors or errors of ommission.
John Molvar
